Google Fixes Chrome's End User Terms Of Service

The old Terms of Service agreement was seen by many in the Internet community as Google being evil by asserting ownership over its users' work.

The old TOS stated "By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, and distribute any Content which you submit, post, or display on or through, the Services."

(Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210500008&subSection=Enterprise+Applications)

To make the story short, many Internet users complaint about the Google Chrome TOS as being evil by asserting ownership over its user's work. Google immediately updated the Terms of Service as remedy.

Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw

After just a few hours of launching Google Chrome beta internet browser, here's a quick discovery of it's vulnerability through webkit and java bug.

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Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.

Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at this year’s Black Hat conference — to trick users into launching executables direct from the new browser.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843

Google Chrome

Google just released the BETA version of Chrome, it's own internet browser. So aside Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla (firefox), Netscape, AOL browser and other internet browser, let's add Google Chrome to the list. To tell you frankly, I'm only using Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, but will definitely check out Chrome for sure.

Here are some noted features:

• One box for everything. Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.


• Thumbnails of your top sites. Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.


• Shortcut for your apps. Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.


• Safe browsing. Google Chrome warns you if you're about to visit a suspected phishing, malware, or otherwise unsafe website.


• Crash control. This is a cool feature, every tab you're using is run independently in the browser. So if one application crashes it won't take anything else down.


• and more.

Only 475KB file to download and quick to install approx. within 5 min. I'm surfing already with Google Chrome. Go check it out yourself, visit http://www.google.com/chrome

Share your feedback with us. Your truly, KING.NET

What Video site you use to upload?

Since we launched the new design and new services for Michigan.TV last week, I received some questions related to uploading their video and what do I recommend for them to use. Hands up, I told them to use Michigan.TV for uploading unlimited video, music and photo. Not to be bias, YouTube is great for mass audience for your video but if you want quality HD-like internet video go check out Vimeo.com. Vimeo offer you the best HD video on the web.

Check out the HD Channel.

valentimes, two weeks in a hidden metropoly from changku a.k.a. oscar lobo on Vimeo.

The Billion-Dollar Domain Babies

The latest ICANN plan to allow the global populace to assemble an entire domain name like www.yourname.yourname as their free-choice is a revolutionary and timely decision. This now open doors to cyber-brands like my.ibm, hotel.toronto, it.jobs, play.poker, fly.usa or go.telus and applicants will submit a non-refundable fee of $100-500K USD for each name idea and the businesses are already jumping to get started.

A new study estimates that this new registration process would create $33 Billion in fees in the first three years. The prime beneficiaries will be ICANN, which operates as a not-for-profit organization, but they still would have to deliver a highly structured, high speed service and meet global needs Other big recipients will be the worldwide domain registrars and highly specialized experts and lawyers while the cascading revenues will go to IT and web support organizations. The public at large will become the real beneficiaries as a billion new users will come online, millions of new interactive gateways will open and thousands of new global brands will emerge. This will make a global impact and bring a new face to the global E-commerce. The study also points out how in countries around the world, new national clubs of overnight billion-dollar domain name owners will emerge, all fueling the new global race.

continue reading: ExchangeMagazine

DNS at Risk From Multivendor Cache Poisoning

It's not often that multiple vendors are involved in a single security patch.

Then again few technologies are as widely used or as critical as Domain Name System, or DNS (define), the core Internet protocol that translates domain names into IP addresses.

Security researchers today sounded the alarm, warning DNS server users to update to new patched versions from their vendors to protect against a critical security issue.

continue reading: InternetNews

Who's Really at Risk From the DNS Flaw?

With DNS so vital to the operation of the Internet, security threats to it need to be taken seriously. But when it comes to the recent disclosure of a multivendor DNS cache poisoning issue, who really is at risk? And will the Internet collapse if the issue isn't fixed?
Experts say that while the new DNS cache poisoning issue is very serious, DNS has been threatened before -- and the core structure of the Internet name servers remains ready for such challenges.

continue reading: InternetNews

The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire Internet

The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The project, which is still in its initial stages, goes by the name “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,” or IPETEE for short. It tackles encryption not on the application level, but on the network level, the aim being that all data exchanged on your PC would be encrypted, regardless of its nature — be it a web browser streaming video files or an instant messaging client. As Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij (a.k.a. Tiamo) told me, “Even applications that don’t supporting encryption will be encrypted where possible.”

Source: neeteevee.com

ICANN to vote on new Internet domain names

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is getting ready to vote later this week to open up the Internet naming convention to allow more options.

On Thursday at its meeting in Paris, ICANN, the not-for-profit organization charged with overseeing the Internet's naming scheme, will vote on a proposal that would allow companies to purchase new generic top-level domains ending in almost anything they want. So instead of being limited to .com, .org or .co.uk as the last letters of their Web addresses, companies or organizations could add their company name to the end of their URL. For example, eBay could become .ebay or Intel could be .intel. Even cities could name their Web sites .newyork or .berlin.

But the new names, which could be ready in 2009, won't come cheap. As a result, it's unlikely that individuals will be able to take advantage of the new naming conventions to create more personalized Web sites. The exact price to register these new names isn't yet known, but some experts predict it could cost about $50,000 to register a new domain name.

continue reading: news.cnet.com

Microsoft Buys Navic for TV Ads

Microsoft failed to get Yahoo to increase their online search presence and go head to head with Google. Well, Microsoft move on and acquired Navic networks to extend its ad platform to television.

About Navic:
Navic's technology is transforming television advertising through sophisticated campaign management tools that use real-time audience measurement data to optimize the delivery and placement of targeted interactive media. Navic's closed-loop solutions are designed to ensure continued campaign success across local or vast geographical areas that span multiple MSO divisions and platforms.

In the news:
Buying Navic is also a way to keep pace with Google, which is making a push to enter the estimated $80 billion TV ad market. McAndrews said Navic differs from Google's approach by working directly with cable companies versus satellite services, allowing greater targeting and not forcing broadcasters to use an auction. Project Canoe, which recently recruited Aegis Media Americas CEO David Verklin to head it, is attempting to bring ad targeting to TV through a consortium of cable companies.

"Our ultimate goal is to take the things you can do on the Internet, including targeting and accountability, to television," McAndrews said. "We see TV looking a lot like the Internet.
Source: Adweek.com

World Internet Users as of March 2008

If your business profits coming from Internet visitors, you might want to check this statistic. As of March 2008, ASIA Internet Usage Statistics is 37.6% compare to North America 17.5%. Another interesting statistic is Africa for 27.1%.

Given this results, the world internet penetration rates still goes to North America for 73.1% while low results for ASIA 14.0% and Africa 5.3%.

For more detailed information, please continue reading here:

http://internetworldstats.com/stats.htm